The Barnard Archives & Special Collections is open at limited capacity, by appointment only, to Barnard and Columbia students, faculty, and staff. We also offer limited remote research/scanning services for all researchers and access to our digital collections online. Please reach out to archives@barnard.edu with research requests, questions, or to be notified when in-person appointments are available.

What We Do

Archives & COVID-19

COVID-19 Service Changes

The Barnard Archives & Special Collections reading room is open in a limited capacity, by appointment only, to current Columbia affiliates (students, faculty and staff) whose individual research requires consulting Barnard Archives & Special Collections materials. Please visit our Locations, Hours, & Appointments page for more information on scheduling your visit.

Staff continue to support all researchers with remote research requests; please email archives@barnard.edu. We offer free, limited scanning and remote reference services dependent on staff capacity. In your email archives@barnard.edu list if possible the collections (and if applicable the specific materials) which you are interested in or which for you want to request scans. You can use our f inding aids to narrow your request.

We hope to resume in-person appointments for all researchers as soon as possible. Please email archives@barnard.edu if you would like to be added to an email list to be notified when in-person appointments are available.

Our digital collections provide remote access to a fraction of our total collections, including digitized yearbooks, the school newspaper, photographs, oral histories, and Barnard Center for Research on Women documents.

Documenting COVID-19 at Barnard

Archives staff are working on a project to document the impact of COVID-19 on the Barnard community. We are collecting official communications from the College, archiving websites, and building a collaborative collection with the Barnard community.

We welcome your voices:

Share a website, news story, or social media feed/post that reflects the impact of COVID-19 on Barnard for inclusion in a collaborative web archive (submit via this form)
For faculty: if you have added or are thinking about adding a journaling or other documentation-based assignment to your syllabus, email archives@barnard.edu to discuss a class or individual donation to the archives.
We welcome other donations of materials documenting COVID-19 and its impact on the Barnard community; please email archives@barnard.edu to discuss how to transfer digital or paper/analog records to the archives.